UN / IRAN SANCTIONS

The chair of the Iran Sanctions Committee told the Security Council today (15 July) that “a number of Committee members” were of the view that the launch of ballistic missiles last year by Iran during the Great Prophet 7 military exercises, “constituted a clear violation of resolution 1929 and that therefore all Member States should redouble their efforts to implement ballistic missile related sanctions on Iran.” UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:27
• Production Date: 15 July 2013
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: DISARMAMENT; NUCLEAR SCIENCE
• Geographic Subject: IRAN
• MAMS Id: U130715a

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STORY: UN / IRAN SANCTIONS
TRT: 2.27
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 15 JULY 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

15 JULY 2013, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gary Quinlan, Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations:
“A number of Committee members expressed the view, as confirmed by the Panel of Experts, that the launches constituted a clear violation of resolution 1929 and that therefore all Member States should redouble their efforts to implement ballistic missile related sanctions on Iran.”
5. Wide shot, Security Council
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gary Quinlan, Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations:
“Iran continued to seek items for its prohibited activities from abroad by using complex procurement methods, including front companies, false documentation and intermediaries. She further stressed the Panel’s assessment that Iran remains dependent on foreign imports for key components for its prohibited nuclear and missile programmes which indicates of course the ongoing relevance of the sanctions.”
7. Wide shot, Security Council
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Lyall Grant, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations:
“We note with regret that Iran continues to breach its international obligations. The Panel of Experts, which I remind colleagues includes both the Russian and the Chinese expert, reached the clear and unanimous conclusion in January, that Iran’s ballistic missile launches last year during military exercises conducted by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, constituted a violation of paragraph 9 of resolution 1929.”
9. Wide shot, Security Council
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Lyall Grant, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations:
“If Iran’s leaders want to bring all sanctions to an end and enable Iran to realise a the benefits of a civil nuclear programme, then they must comply with their international obligations and engage with concerns over their nuclear programme. As my Foreign Secretary said recently, we look to Iran to consider carefully whether it wants to continue on its current course and face increasing pressure and isolation from the international community, or to enter into meaningful negotiations. We hope that following the election of Doctor Rowhani, Iran will take a different course for the future, addressing international concerns about its nuclear programme, taking forward a constructive relationship with the international community and improving the political and human rights situation for the people of Iran.”
11. Wide shot, Security Council

Storyline

The chair of the Iran Sanctions Committee told the Security Council today (15 July) that “a number of Committee members” were of the view that the launch of ballistic missiles last year by Iran during the Great Prophet 7 military exercises, “constituted a clear violation of resolution 1929 and that therefore all Member States should redouble their efforts to implement ballistic missile related sanctions on Iran.”

Ambassador Gary Quinlan of Australia, presenting the latest report on the Committee’s work said that according to the Panel of Experts, Iran had “continued to seek items for its prohibited activities from abroad by using complex procurement methods, including front companies, false documentation and intermediaries.”

Quinlan said that the Panel’s assessment was that that Iran “remains dependent on foreign imports for key components for its prohibited nuclear and missile programmes which indicates of course the ongoing relevance of the sanctions.”

Ambassador Lyall Grant, of the United Kingdom told the Council that “Iran continues to breach its international obligations” and noted that the Panel of Experts which “includes both the Russian and the Chinese expert” had reached a unanimous conclusion regarding the launches.

Grant said that “if Iran’s leaders want to bring all sanctions to an end and enable Iran to realise a the benefits of a civil nuclear programme, then they must comply with their international obligations and engage with concerns over their nuclear programme.”

He said he hoped that following the election of Doctor Hasan Rowhani as Iran’s new President, “Iran will take a different course for the future, addressing international concerns about its nuclear programme, taking forward a constructive relationship with the international community and improving the political and human rights situation for the people of Iran.”

The Iran Sanctions Committee was established on 23 December 2006 to undertake the tasks set out in resolution 1737. The mandate of the Committee has since been expanded to apply also to the measures imposed in resolutions 1747 (2007) and 1803 (2008) and to the measures decided in resolution 1929 (2010).